Raymond Queneau Quotes
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.
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'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
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I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.
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Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
